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Dan Gillmor / Backchannel:
AMP is necessary because the news industry filled its sites with garbage code from ad companies, slowing load time — Google Is Going to Speed Up the Web. Is This Good? — To improve reading the news on mobile—and better compete with Facebook Instant Articles—Google today is launching AMP
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Limited resources and paywalls limit some publishers experiments with AMP while others go all in — Diving all in or dipping a toe? How publishers are approaching Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages initiative — “Mobile web performance is bad — I challenge you find someone who disagrees with that …
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ampproject.org, Engadget, Official Google Blog, Android Police, @dannysullivan, @jbenton, GitHub, The Tech Portal, Google Europe Blog, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Land, Wired.co.uk, WordPress.com News, The Next Digit, Engadget, @s_m_i, BBC, Business Insider, Guardian, CNET, Wired, The Next Web, NDTV Gadgets360.com and Android Police
Mark Bergen / Re/code:
Google AMP Is Less About Beating Facebook at News, More About Gobbling Up the Mobile Web — When Google looks at the mobile Web, it sees so many things it does not like. — Websites aren't built for mobile. Too much code hobbles pages. And everything, oh man, everything is too slow.
BBC:
Savile sex abuse report released, criticizes macho culture, atmosphere of fear, and accuses BBC of serious failings, but absolves senior management — Jimmy Savile report: BBC staff ‘knew of complaints’ — BBC staff knew of complaints against DJ Jimmy Savile, but senior management …
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Guardian, Sky News, @julian5news, @exaronews, @mediaguardian, @skynewsbreak, @sallyhayd and Featured Articles
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Sophie Jamieson / Telegraph:
Radio DJ Tony Blackburn fired shortly before new sex abuse report is released on Savile era, vows legal action against BBC — Tony Blackburn sacked by BBC ahead of sex abuse report — DJ Tony Blackburn says he plans to take legal action against the BBC for ‘destroying my career and reputation’
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@tonyblackburn, Guardian, The Drum, @dailymirror, Independent.ie and mirror
BBC:
Full report by Dame Janet Smith of her inquiry into the BBC's culture and practices during the Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall years — Dame Janet Smith review — Introduction The BBC Trust has published in full the report by Dame Janet Smith DBE of her inquiry into the BBC's culture …
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Sources: Google to add Chromecast-like features to TV sets, starting with Vizio, could become available as early as spring — Google to Add Casting to TV Sets, Starting With Vizio (Exclusive) — Move could signal shift in company's living-room strategy — Google is getting ready …
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Android Authority, The Next Web, Pocket-lint, The Verge, Business Insider, 9to5Google, Gizmodo and TIME
Peter Sterne / Politico:
Genius hires former Gawker features editor Leah Finnegan to head News Genius in renewed push into general news — Genius hires former Gawker editor to spearhead news division — Genius has hired former Gawker editor Leah Finnegan as managing news editor, the annotation start-up announced today.
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@leahfinnegan, @mlcalderone, @max_read and @mathewi
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Inside New Media Investment Group, the private equity-run chain driving consolidation with its purchases of small newspapers — New Media Emerges as Big Player for Small Newspapers — Private equity-run chain snaps up assets as a sharp drop in prices drives wave of consolidation
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Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google:
Google blocks 9to5Google from using its ad network, which publisher says brought in six figures/month, claiming trademark violation, wants site name changed — Google wants us to change our name from 9to5Google — Some big site news everyone! At around noon today, our ads stopped working.
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@dannysullivan, @tomaxwell, @zackwhittaker, @jaspar and The Verge
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
New entrants like Fusion, Vox, and Gawker join the crowd of sites covering 2016 national elections — New media players seek to make their mark on the 2016 campaign — Sam Biddle wants to catch Ted Cruz with his pants down. — “My dream story would be me next to Ted Cruz at a urinal …
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@morninggloria, @freddiedeboer, @joepompeo and @jayrosen_nyu
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Yahoo stops signing up new publishers to its ad network Yahoo Recommends as company faces uncertain future — Yahoo is pulling back on its Outbrain/Taboola competitor — The content recommendation wars have claimed another casualty: Yahoo Recommends, Yahoo's two-year-old widget …
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WebProNews, dmwmedia.com, AdNews and @lmoses
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